Abstract

Equations of light propagation through a slightly anisotropic medium are derived. They are applied to the analysis of the tomographic problem of dielectric tensor fields. Two particular tomographic problems are also considered: (1) the axisymmetric problem and (2) the problem of the tensor with slight (but not negligible) rotations of the principal axes.

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